Word: iq
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the Gulf to the oil-laden Bahrein Islands, territory of more tractable, independent H. H. Sheik Sir Hamad bin 'Isa al Khalifa, leaving His Britannic Majesty's diplomatic agent for the Persian Gulf uncomfortably high & dry in.' Bushire's British Residency (see map, p. IQ). Meanwhile protection-loving Imperial Airways revised its flying route to India, establishing its regular Persian Gulf stop for seaplanes at Bahrein instead of Iranian territory...
...York Yankees' crack Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez, ardent believer in astrology, blamed Finsler's Comet (TIME, Aug. 2) for his failure to win a baseball game in a month. "On July IQ," said sad Pitcher Gomez, "I beat Cleveland for my 13th victory. Then Finsler's Comet began to edge into the picture and I knew right off I was cooked. Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together...
...sensation by exposing his typically brutal treatment in private, endowed and State hospitals during a three-year stay. On the crest of the ensuing public indignation was launched the modern mental hygiene movement, which during the World War received an impetus like neurology in the Civil War. When IQ tests tried out on the Army revealed that nearly half of the U. S. population was mentally defective, psychiatrists decided to look into the matter again, presently announced sweeping qualifications...
...unmeasurable, that there are as many psychological systems as there are psychologists, that labels are thrown around with more regard for convenience than precision. Psychology is particularly vulnerable to such attacks from outside because there is so much intra-professional bickering. The famed Stanford-Binet "Intelligence Test" (determination of IQ) is under increasing fire from skeptics who hold that intelligence must be defined before a yardstick can be applied to it, that an individual's social value may be wholly unrelated to his IQ. These skeptics guffaw loudly when, every few months, some bright moppet turns up with...
...findings of Professor Paul Andrew Witty of Northwestern University: 47 schoolboys among 14,149 and 48 schoolgirls among 13,493 were found to have IQ's of 140 or better...